Nurses: Rose Kiwanuka and Subadhra Devi Rai
Uganda – BBC World Service
Rose Kiwanuka, who was Uganda’s first palliative care nurse in the early 1990s and is now the national coordinator of the Palliative Care Association, speaks to the BBC World Service about her work.
End of ‘death panels’ myth brings new end of life challenges
US – New York Times
American health care tends to encourage doctors to make money by ordering more tests and procedures rather than by having conversations with patients. But when those patients face decisions about what they want to happen, and not happen, as they near death, they need to talk over their options, not receive an additional MRI.
Pakistan – The News on Sunday
Death is inevitable, but the question is how to save terminally sick people from a lot of pain and suffering by letting them die without major and often unsuccessful medical interventions.
Doing better: Efforts underway to improve end of life care in NC
US – The News & Observer
Whether it’s the medical establishment or our own families, we frequently don’t plan well for physical and mental decline or gracefully accept their arrival.
No pain relief for 75% of the world’s suffering
Pallium India
A new report says that 75% of the world’s people in need do not have access to pain relieving medicine.
Assisted suicide – legal regulations and practices
EAPC blog
The second post in our special series to mark the publication of the EAPC’s latest white paper on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Palliative care provides comfort and hope
ehospice USA
NHPCO’s “Moments of Life: Made Possible by Hospice” campaign releases new video showing how palliative care has changed one woman’s life.
Leaving the comfort zone at Hospice UK’s annual conference
ehospice UK
One popular session at Hospice UK’s conference this year was Bob Heath’s workshop ‘Creative collaboration at the end of life – a useful provision or an essential response?’ Here, three people share how the workshop encouraged them to leave their comfort zone.
10 minutes with Tatiana Slezak
ehospice Australia
Not so long ago, Tatiana Slezak knew nothing about palliative care. Then she accepted a role as a bilingual educator, running sessions on palliative care for people whose first language was Polish. She gives an insight into how culture can impact perceptions of palliative care and what helps people from non-English speaking backgrounds to learn about it.
Keech Hospice Care uses annual report to bust dying beliefs
ehospice UK
Keech Hospice Care has used its latest annual report to challenge public assumptions that hospices are only places people go to die. Mel Barry, head of marketing and communications at Keech, tells us more.
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